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Author : Bob Eggleton,Nigel Suckling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : 087951860X
Explores the myth, legend, scientific documentation, and fiction inspired by sea monsters.
Author : Chloe Aridjis
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948226776
Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, this intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middle–class upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico is “a surreal, captivating tale about the power of a youthful imagination, the lure of teenage transgression, and its inevitable disappointments” (Los Angeles Review of Books). One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen–year–old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking―recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will “promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the “Beach of the Dead.” Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Set to a pulsing soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us. "Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebald’s or Cusk’s, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis. It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self–contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea." ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226925189
The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Author : Jane Austen,Ben H. Winters
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594744426
New York Times bestseller An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!
Author : Michael J. Everhart,National Society
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1426301766
A pop-up, lift-flap, and pull-tab version of the story of a young female sea dolly born in the shallow waters of a prehistoric Kansas Mesozoic-era lake who learns to survive after encountering a variety of predators and other underwater dinosaurs from that ancient time period.
Author : David Schach
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781600146442
"Engaging images accompany information about sea monsters. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452108667
Sea monster Ernest is starting his first day of school. But starting school is a big job! Fitting in when you're a sea monster is tough enough, and there's so much to learn and do—reading, singing, playing hide-and-seek with the fishermen, lunchtime in the algae patch.... This funny, charming twist on the worries and joys of starting school will reassure and delight the smallest children and the largest sea monsters alike.
Author : Krystyna Poray Goddu
Publisher : Monster Mania
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512425932
Shares information on sea monsters, including the kraken, the Loch Ness monster, and the kappa.
Author : Tony Millionaire
Publisher : Archaia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1684152283
A nautical collection of detailed, fun-to-color, irreverent illustrations from critically-acclaimed cartoonist, Tony Millionaire, featuring some his most beloved misfit characters. Step aboard and experience the strange and beautiful world of award-winning cartoonist Tony Millionaire and his most beloved characters in this intricate, irreverent, nautical coloring book. Featuring over 40 black and white illustrations with spyglass-like detail, you’ll encounter everything imaginable above and below the high seas along with a couple of special guest land-lubbers. Humor fans and color enthusiasts alike can jump in feet first and bring this madcap, seafaring world to life with the most vivid and ridiculous colors of their imaginations.
Author : Michael O'Hearn
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781669020707
The masters of sky and sea confront each other in this monstrous battle. Few beasts can match the power of a fire breathing dragon. But huge sea monsters are also fearsome forces of nature. Discover the weapons and abilities of these mighty beasts, and then get ready for a fiery, head to head fight.
Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cryptozoology
ISBN : 1592289673
Few creatures have captured the imaginations of so many for so long as have monsters of the deep. Their history has been surprisingly consistent, the author notes. Most began as myths and then acquired a sense of reality when the existence of creatures resembling those chronicled in legend was documented. Ellis (Men and Whales) gives a superb account of marine monsters and their attendant myths, sightings, scientific discovery and biology. He describes only the best known and the best documented. He traces the mermaid to the manatee and dugong, Leviathan to the sperm whale, kraken to the giant squid and polyp to the octopus (sharks, however, remain sharks). He examines these monsters in art, literature and film, taking Jules Verne and Victor Hugo to task for their ignorance of biology, hysterical fantasy and unmitigated malice. Herman Melville, Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Benchley get better ratings. Of all the sighted monsters, only the giant squid (Architeuthis) retains its mythological and cryptozoological status, for its very existence is shrouded in mystery. Sharks have had a bad reputation throughout history, but until Jaws (1974) they did not figure prominently in literature. At the end of this engaging book, Ellis confesses to skepticism: "monsters, if they exist, have more to fear from us than we do from them.
Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781682808313
They may be scary-looking but they definitely have important functions in securing the biodiversity of marine life. Learn about these sea monsters by ÒmeetingÓ them face-to-face. The use of picture books in introducing sea monsters will help you slowly accept them and not be feel scared towards them. Picture books work by capturing the attention to help you remember facts better. Buy a copy now!
Author : Thea Tomaini,Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781947447141
Beaches are places that give and take, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. Through monsters, we confront our tiny time between catastrophes and develop a recognition of Otherness by which an ethical understanding of difference becomes possible. Learning to read the monster's environmental signs often helps humans determine the scope of the monster's place in the eco/cosmic timeline and defeat it-until the epic cycle inevitably repeats; monsters live and live and live. Even so; when humans identify and confront monsters we do so at the risk of exposing our own monstrosity. When a massive creature is pushed into human proximity by the ocean's wide shoulders, the waves deposit and erode human assumptions about itself and its environment; words, sounds, breath, water, wind, flesh, blood, and bones wash in and out. Chance encounters reveal us to ourselves anew. When we look into the inky backs of whales, or deep into vortices, what do we see?In October 2014, the BABEL Working Group headed to the beach. The 3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group was held at The University of California, Santa Barbara, where the Pacific Ocean laid her face against the sand and experienced the conference panels exploring, examining, and exalting the margins of sea and shore, of earth and water. This volume of essays represents MEARCSTAPA's panel, entitled, "The Nature of the Beast/Beasts of Nature: Monstrous Environments." These essays explore what the environment reveals via monster theory, what monsters-here, whales and whirlpools-make visible or accessible to humanity and what they draw away from it.
Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0712358900
The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.
Author : The Beastly Boys
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781847387134
The second book in this fantastic series. Ulf is an orphaned werewolf who has lived his whole life at Farraway Hall, the headquarters of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Beasts (RSPCB), a rescue centre for rare and endangered beasts. When an injured sea monster arrives, Ulf uncovers a poisonous mystery and a world of beast poaching in which sea beasts are eaten as delicacies. With the help of Orson the giant, Tiana the fairy and Dr Fielding the RSPCB vet, Ulf must defeat the cruel beast hunter Baron Marackai and stop the Beast Feast. The future of the RSPCB depends on it...